voter registration; temporary absence, the official text

PREFILED    DEC 19 2025

REFERENCE TITLE: voter registration; temporary absence

State of Arizona

Senate

Fifty-seventh Legislature

Second Regular Session

2026

SB 1060

Introduced by

Senator
Rogers

AN
ACT

amending sections 16-103 and 16-593,
Arizona Revised Statutes; relating to voter registration.

(TEXT OF BILL BEGINS ON NEXT PAGE)

Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:

Section 1. Section 16-103, Arizona Revised
Statutes, is amended to read:

START_STATUTE16-103. Qualified person temporarily absent from state; persons in the
service of the United States

A. A qualified person who is temporarily
absent from [the] this state may
register by filling out an affidavit of registration which shall be furnished upon on request of the registrant by the
county recorder of the county in which the registrant has residence pursuant to
section 16-593. The registrant shall execute the affidavit of
registration and administer the oath himself and shall return the affidavit to
the county recorder.

B. The county recorder may accept a federal postcard
application in lieu of an affidavit of registration from any qualified person
covered under the uniformed and overseas citizens absentee voting act of 1986 (P.L. 99-410; [42] 52 United States Code [section 1973] sections 20301 through 20311).

C. Notwithstanding any other provisions of law to the contrary [notwithstanding],
registration for any person covered under subsection B of this section may be
accomplished at any time [prior to] before 7:00
p.m. of an election day. This subsection applies only to persons
temporarily absent from this state.

D. A person who was an overseas voter as defined in
the uniformed and overseas citizens absentee voting act [of 1986]
(P.L. 99-410; [42] 52 United
States Code section [1973] 20310), as
amended by the Ronald W. Reagan national defense authorization act for fiscal
year 2005 (P.L. 108-375), immediately before being domiciled in this
state, and who has been discharged or separated from that service or employment
in the ninety days before election day may register and is eligible to vote in
that election if the registration is received by 5:00 p.m. on the Friday before
election day.

[E. Any United States citizen who has
never resided in the United States and whose parent is a United States citizen
who is registered to vote in this state is eligible to register to vote and may
vote in this state using a federal write-in early ballot as prescribed by
section 16-543.02.] END_STATUTE

Sec. 2. Section 16-593, Arizona Revised
Statutes, is amended to read:

START_STATUTE16-593. Rules determining residence of voter on challenge; reading of
rules on request

A. The election board, in determining the place of
residence of a person, shall be governed by the following rules, so far as
applicable:

1. The residence of a person is that place in which
his habitation is fixed and to which he has the intention of returning when
absent.

2. A person does not gain or lose his residence by
reason of his presence at or absence from a place while employed in the service
of the United States or of this state, or while engaged in navigation, or while
a student at an institution of learning or while kept in an almshouse, asylum
or prison.

3. A person does not lose his residence by leaving
his home to go to another county, state or foreign country for merely temporary
purposes, with the intention of returning.

4. A person does not gain a residence in any county
into which he comes for merely temporary purposes, without the intention of
making that county his home.

5. If a person removes to another state with the
intention of making it his residence, he loses his residence in this state.

6. If a person removes to another state with the
intention of remaining there for an indefinite time, and of making the place
his present residence, he loses his residence in this state, even though he has
an intention of returning at some future period.

7. The place where a person's family permanently
resides is his residence, unless he is separated from his family, but if it is
a place of temporary establishment for his family, or for transient purposes,
it is otherwise.

8. If a person has a family residing in one place
and he does business in another, the former is his place of residence, but a
person having a family who has taken up his abode with the intention of
remaining and whose family does not so reside with him shall be regarded as a
resident where his abode has been taken.

[9. A United States citizen who has
never resided in the United States is eligible to vote in this state by using a
federal write-in early ballot as prescribed in sections 16-103 and 16-543.02 if
both of the following apply:]

[(a) A parent is a United States
citizen.]

[(b) The parent is registered to vote
in this state.]

[10.] 9. The
mere intention of acquiring a new residence without the act of removal avails
nothing and neither does the act of removal without the intention.

B. The term of residence shall be computed by
including the day on which the person's residence commenced and by excluding
the day of election.

C. Before administering an oath to a person touching
his residence, the inspector, if requested by any person, shall read to the
person challenged the rules set forth in subsection A of this section.